It took the deer about 3 to 4 weeks to find my trophy rock. I had it set up wedged in an old stump where it couldn't be moved.I checked it every week or 2 and around the 4th week I went back to check it to findthat the deer had knocked it somehow off the stump, and tore all the ground up all around it.. It is kind of like an all or nothing thing as far as i see it.